Politicians and the media is milking the “Fake News” narrative for as much juice as they can squeeze. Still in denial to the fact that it wasn’t “fake news” that won the election, it was the candidates they ran. Yet they still insist that a poorly educated gullible class of white people fell for all of this supposed fake information.
I don’t know what’s more insulting, the fact the liberal elites and their media really believe this, or they think they can trick their own minions into believing it.

“There are also serious problems with the evidence BuzzFeed presents. As Timothy Carney points out at the Washington Examiner, the “real news” that Silverman uses for comparison are, in many cases, opinion pieces from liberal columnists. The top “real” stories — which BuzzFeed presented in a graphic to compare against the top “fake” stories — consist of four anti-Trump opinion pieces and a racy exposé of Melania Trump’s nude modeling from two decades ago.

That didn’t stop others in the media from making the leap from bad analysis to causal connections with absolutely no evidence in support of it. The New York Times began running news stories on the pernicious influence of “fake news,” and even President Obama used it as an opportunity to lecture about the dangers it presents to democracy.”

 

“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not,” Obama intoned from Berlin, “and particularly in an age of social media when so many people are getting their information in sound bites and off their phones, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”    Keep Reading…